The problem with the bot crackdown ideas is that they mostly involve hiring people which Musk laid off (getting the boss to admit his mistake is never easy, and he’s more egotistical than average) and it’ll tank the numbers that their customers see. Advertisers like the idea of not paying for bot activity but they’re going to be paying less overall and if the numbers go down significantly some are going to argue for refunds because X wasn’t doing adequate bot control before. Similarly, people like to see high follower counts but if those drop precipitously when a new antispam is announced, it’s really going to contribute to the “this place is over” impression most of the remaining users already have.

> I'm sure they'll crackdown on that at some point

How? Only Blue can post + comment? Looking in my X experience, a lot of spammers are not afraid of paying. I see way too many obviously generated spam posts/comments from Blue users. What other ways are there?

What is all this noise about bots? I have 36k followers on Twitter. I'm on it all the time. I don't think I've ever seen a bot. What exactly do these bots do and how would you know they're bots?